"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."

-- Fyodor Dostoevsky

#Tea Quotes #World Quotes #Hell Quotes

“A writers job is to destroy and then to build the thing back up again by a chosen means.”
“What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.”
“The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.”
“Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.”

Source : John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2005). “Captivating: A Guided Journal: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.53, Thomas Nelson
“A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.”
“Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.”

Source : "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.
“Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.”
“That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness...”

Source : Anne Rivers Siddons (1993). “Colony”, G K Hall & Company

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